Students who struggle with spelling at Marta Valle High School on New York City’s Lower East Side may have trouble finding positive reinforcement just outside their school property. The New York Post reports that a humiliating spelling error — “SHCOOL X-NG”– has been plastered on the street outside the high school for months: “It’s embarrassing for the city!” Luis Maldonado, a 50-year-old maintenance worker in the area, told the Post. “Teaching kids to read and write correctly is very important!” Residents in the area said construction crews worked on the street over the summer, and a city official told the Post that when utilities or contractors are done working on a city street they are required to restore it correctly and reinstall all marks. To add insult to injury, it appears that no officials have noticed, let alone reported, the error for months. “Nothing surprises me anymore at this school,” the school’s PTA President Linda Surles told the Post. “What’s ironic is that the principal has probably painted the lunchroom and rooms inside over about five times since 2010.” A Department of Transportation spokesman told the Post that they were making arrangements to correct the error promptly, but insisted that the spelling mistake was made by a utility provider not the city or any of its contractors. ABC News reports on the embarrassing error: video platform video management video solutions video player Editor’s note: we realize that “school” is spelled wrong in the title. That’s the point.
See the article here:
Can You Spot What‘s Wrong with This ’Shcool’ Sign?
**Written by Doug Powers It’s Friday afternoon, which means we’re sitting around waiting to see which documents get dumped out a second floor window of the White House before everybody heads off for the weekend. Until that happens, Jay Carney’s taken it upon himself to keep everybody entertained: WH reporter: “Do you understand the optics when, at the economy event he was on the ground in Orlando for less than three hours, yet he spent roughly seven hours at these four different campaign events. The way this is viewed, you hear from Republicans…” Jay Carney: “…I would challenge you to look at what the President does on any given week, including this week and many weeks going back, and not come to the conclusion that he spends a relatively small amount of time — at this stage — on campaign events. That’s a simple fact”: The Press Corps would ask the President himself if he’s spending much time campaigning, but yesterday Obama’s completely non campaign-related photo op at the Magic Kingdom was followed by the four non campaign-related NYC fundraisers the reporter was referring to (one featuring an Al Green impression that by now is probably Chris Matthews’ cell phone ring tone). Those were followed today by another non campaign-related fundrasier, so the press isn’t able to reach him quite yet : (h/t HAP ) **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
View post:
Jay Carney: Obama Doesn’t Really Spend a Lot of Time Campaigning
Scott LoBaido is clever man. He found a way to bring Christmas trees back into NYC’s transportation hubs. LoBaido designed and wore a Christmas tree costume! After being sued for allowing Christmas decorations in bus and ferry teminals, New York City imposed a ban on Christmas trees and other holiday decorations. Scott was not pleased about the ban and managed to find a way to bring the Christmas spirit to the Staten Island Ferry terminal. You have to love the persistence of some people. Scott told the NY Daily News that he spent about $400 on the supplies to make his tree costume. Mr. LoBaido’s website tells us that he is a self-taught artist and 4th-generation New Yorker. His artwork focuses on the American flag and in 2010, LoBaido painted the “world’s largest mural” of the Stars and Stripes. The mural covered 150,000 square feet and required 900 gallons of paint. (As a NY-er, a Christian, and a patriot, this writer appreciates Scott’s work.)
Happy hump day! Alec Baldwin wants to run for NYC mayor so his car will never be blocked by limos again. Here’s a better version of Herman Cain’ s interview with Wolf Blitzer . Public says divorce isn’t so bad for public officials. How about affairs? What President Obama can learn from Kim Kardashian . Comedian Andy Richter becomes Newt Gingrich . Via SomeeCards:
Continued here:
Midday snacks 11.30.11
As the nationwide Rage-fest gets underway tomorrow to mark the two-month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement and its devolution into a lice-infested, criminal-attracting, craptacular Molotov cocktail party, where, oh where, are the civility police? The speech monitors? The White House? Just a few weeks ago, the president’s staff rushed to the side of the Occupiers. Now? Not so much. I noted tonight at the end of my segment on the Hannity show that silence = complicity. Maxine Waters shrugs at dead bodies and rapes and child molesters infesting the Occupier camps: “[T]hat’s life and it happens.” The nutball who threatened to bomb Macy’s with Molotov cocktails has been arrested , by the way. Spin from Occupier apologists: All those troublesome violent agitators are just “infiltrators.” Comment from White House flacks? Bueller? Bueller? Here’s some lowdown on the “#N17″ festivities . Banks will be targeted again. NYC thugs will aim to shut down Wall Street for real. D.C. hoodlums plan to shut down traffic. Other Occupiers will shut down bridges. You can monitor Occupier livestreams here or here . Conservative Daily News is holding an alternative “National Day of Doing Crap That Matters.” How sympathetic describe the planned chaos: “a combination of envelope-pushing direct actions and mass demonstrations.” Update: 1:00am Eastern Police have moved in on Occupy Dallas , shutting it down citing violations of a city curfew for city parks between midnight and 5am. Interesting timing now given that city cut a deal with the occupiers and tolerated the rule-breaking for nearly two months… *** Flashback: If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate, as it should, let’s make sure it’s worthy of those we have lost. Let’s make sure it’s not on the usual plane of politics and point scoring and pettiness that drifts away with the next news cycle. The loss of these wonderful people should make every one of us strive to be better in our private lives – to be better friends and neighbors, co-workers and parents. And if, as has been discussed in recent days, their deaths help usher in more civility in our public discourse, let’s remember that it is not because a simple lack of civility caused this tragedy, but rather because only a more civil and honest public discourse can help us face up to our challenges as a nation, in a way that would make them proud. It should be because we want to live up to the example of public servants like John Roll and Gabby Giffords, who knew first and foremost that we are all Americans, and that we can question each other’s ideas without questioning each other’s love of country, and that our task, working together, is to constantly widen the circle of our concern so that we bequeath the American dream to future generations. I believe we can be better. Those who died here, those who saved lives here – they help me believe. We may not be able to stop all evil in the world, but I know that how we treat one another is entirely up to us. I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us. That’s what I believe, in part because that’s what a child like Christina Taylor Green believed. Imagine: here was a young girl who was just becoming aware of our democracy; just beginning to understand the obligations of citizenship; just starting to glimpse the fact that someday she too might play a part in shaping her nation’s future. She had been elected to her student council; she saw public service as something exciting, something hopeful. She was off to meet her congresswoman, someone she was sure was good and important and might be a role model. She saw all this through the eyes of a child, undimmed by the cynicism or vitriol that we adults all too often just take for granted. I want us to live up to her expectations. I want our democracy to be as good as she imagined it. All of us – we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children’s expectations.
See the original post:
#N17 RAGEFEST: White House silence on Occupier chaos = complicity; Molotov Man arrested; Occupy Dallas cleared out
Scroll down for updates…funny business in the courtroom…hoo-boy… As of 4:10am Eastern. Clean-up time. Finally. NYPD is in full riot-gear tonight and the Occupiers are up in arms on Twitter. A police officer has reportedly announced with a bullhorn that the encampment at the private park is a “fire hazard” (among many other health hazards ) and that those who don’t clear out will be arrested. Hope the police brought extra Lysol and rubber gloves. If not hazmat suits. With a h/t to The Right Scoop and CBS News, here are some more screencaps I took of some of the activity taking place at the camp right now: *** The Occupiers’ livestream is here . Overheard: Occupier fumes, “We will not be moved.” Famous last words. Now, move out. 1:56am Eastern . They are literally HOWLING in Zuccotti Park. I am thinking they shipped in the Occupy Denver dog leader to bolster the Occupier troops. The same loons who shout “F**k the Police” are now screaming “WE LOVE YOUUUUUUU!!!!” Occupier whines: “They’re throwing and breaking everything!” Ranting about 60 days of “work” going to waste. Karma. NYC has sent in a sanitation truck. Occupiers shriek in horror. Like garlic to vampires: Fox News Radio’s Todd Starnes tweets that NYC Mayor Bloomberg will allow protesters back into Zuccotti Park “after it’s cleaned.” Ummmm, how is it possible to “clean” the park without removing the human filth? *** Here’s the NYPD scanner link (h/t Erick Brockway). 2:38am Eastern NBC News New York tweets that there have been at least 25 arrests , shoving of police by Occupiers, garbage cans thrown into the street. Also: Protesters have reportedly turned away an ambulance. WOO-HOO!!!! Update 2:56am Eastern Occupiers tried to drown out an officer informing them of the fire hazard rules. They chanted some sort of Indian war chant “WAWAWAWAWAWAWA!” thing. It was…bizarre. Then they’ll turn around and complain that they never heard the police warn them of anything. From NYPD police scanner, a group of 200 Occupiers is trying to get into the park and has been stopped. Here’s General Michael Moore directing #OWS troops from his Twitter feed: An occupier screams that “30,000 people” are watching the livestream, ergo “THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING!!!!” Occupiers claiming media have been blocked from park. Also decrying use of tear gas (not confirmed by MSM), shut down of “the people’s kitchen.” Local media say pepper spray was used during park evacuation, not tear gas. 3:59am Eastern The Kamp Alinsky Kids have now been split up into roving bands of brigands wandering NYC. Here is NYT coverage. Latest word from local NYC media: “From a producer on the scene with sources from the NYPD: Small group remains inside the park…they are chained together.” Chained around their necks. Occupy Locksmiths!!! *** Update: Tuesday morning….Rise and whine! They’re baaaack. The Occupiers are marching back to the park. Reports of arrests as of 10:47am. There’s an 11:30am court hearing over the restraining order limiting the city’s ability to evict the campers. Update: Hmmmmm…. ACLU-tied judge who assisted Occupiers is ordered off the case: When the cops raided Zuccotti Park, lawyers for Occupy Wall Street immediately woke up a judge with a civil liberties background and asked for help. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lucy Billings signed an early-morning order temporarily barring cops from keeping protesters and tents out of Zuccotti Park. But within hours, she was off the case as court administrators prepared to randomly choose a new judge — and excluded Billings’ name from the list of candidates. Billings’ biography notes that before she became a judge in 1997, she spent 25 years as a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union. “I have devoted my career to public service, especially the disadvantaged in desperate circumstances,” she wrote in a 2007 pre-election statement. Lawyers for Occupy Wall Street phoned Billings after cops moved into Zuccotti Park early Tuesday, evicted the protesters and got rid of their tents and other camp equipment. Asked why they called her first, protest lawyer Daniel Alterman wouldn’t say, remarking that he’s not a “gossip guy.” The lawyers also called an emergency hotline set up to assign judges to after-hours cases. A staffer told them that since Billings had already been contacted, she should handle the Zuccotti matter. He said Billings came to the lawyers and at 6:30 a.m. signed an order declaring cops cannot evict protesters who aren’t breaking the law or stop protesters from entering with tents. Billings’ involvement will be short-lived. At 11:30 a.m., court officials were scheduled to use a computer program to pick a new judge for an afternoon hearing on the restraining order — the proceeding that will determine if the tents can be erected again. Meantime, The Blaze reports a nearby church — Trinity Church — has had its locks cut by Occupiers. *** Update 5:03pm Eastern After several false reports on Twitter this afternoon, a judge announced that the eviction is being upheld. Gird your loins and get our your surgical masks. The Occupiers will no doubt be raising a stink…
Last week we brought you part one of Victoria Jackson’s interviews with protesters down at New York’s Occupy Wall St. gathering. At the time, we were wondering when part two would surface. Well now it has. And since you loved the first one so much (or at least clicked on it a lot), we’re more than happy to bring you the second installment. (Watch part one of the interviews) Part two includes an interview with an anti-war Quaker, more Socratic-like questions about Marxism, and even more of Jackson delivering tracts about Jesus. And all delivered in her signature voice. If you’re ready, here it is: Of course, not everyone is a fan of Jackson’s interviews. Fellow comedian and Impersonator Jenn Dodd decided to have some fun with Jackson’s video and made a parody of it. Consider that Dodd tries to interview Van Jones and instead ends up grilling a black van. And she also mocks the fact that the videos are called “Vickie Goes to Washington” when the interviews take place in NYC (although the Washington reference could be the name of an ongoing segment where Jackson does actually visit the nation’s capital). Funny? You decide: (H/T: Mediaite )
Visit link:
Want to See Part 2 of Former SNL Star Victoria Jackson’s Occupy Wall St. Interviews?
Pedestrians walk past the 19th century building on Park Place in Manhattan where Muslims plan to build a mosque and cultural center Saturday, Aug.14, 2010, in New York.
Go here to read the rest:
Report: Ground Zero Mega-Mosque Developers May Be Facing Eviction
